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Valentine’s Cupcakes

Valentine’s day is just around the corner ~ and I was on duty to make sweet treats for both the girls’ classes.  I decided to keep it easy on myself and make them all the same and not too detailed.  I did, after all, end up decorating 4 dozen cupcakes! :)   It didn’t take that long at all either.  Chocolate cupcakes by the request of my chocolate loving girls…the icing is piped out half pink/half white.  Dark pink cake sparkles on top and then I piped out chocolate pink and red hearts to put in top.  Click an image to enlarge…



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6 Responses to “Valentine’s Cupcakes”

  1. Abbas Says:
    January 21st, 2011 at 6:22 am

    hello.
    wanted to know what icing u used to frost the cuppys n what u used for the hearts…any recipes?
    they look lovely!!

  2. admin Says:
    January 21st, 2011 at 8:11 am

    The icing is just a regular American buttercream. The hearts are made from pink and red chocolate candy melts. Just melt the candy melts and pipe hearts onto waxed paper. After they cool and harden, pop them off and stick them in the icing! :)

  3. Dannii Says:
    February 11th, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Hey, I really want to make the hearts for some cupcakes I am doing, I am in Ireland and I dont know if the Candy Melts you mentioned are a certain type of candy? Also how did you melt them? Your cupcakes are amazing!

  4. admin Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Candy Melts are a candy coating we can buy here in the states… sold under the Wilton or Make and Mold brand in most stores here. Online you can purchase the Merkens brand. They are a chocolate basically…but the contain more shortening so they are great for coating candies (truffles, nuts, dried fruit) or for using in the chocolate molds to make molded chocolate.

  5. Lesa Bullard Says:
    December 28th, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    How did you do the icing half white and half pink?

  6. admin Says:
    December 28th, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    Lesa ~ To get striped icing like that, color some icing pink (leave some white). Take a long thing spatula and spread a strip of pink icing up the inside of your piping bag – just on the side. Then fill the icing bag with white icing. When you pipe it out, the pink icing will push out on the one sided where you spread it in the bag creating a multi colored look.

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